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Coworker Trouble...vent and need advice!
jenn52
Posted : 9/22/2008 1:08:04 PM
I am having a problem with a girl at work and I’m really not sure how to handle it. Little background, I work in a fairly friendly department of 20 people, males and females, everyone chats and knows each other. Most everyone talks about personal stuff at some point or all the time, depending on the person. So there is this one girl who is a clerk, she’s not an accountant like the majority of us. We’ve always been pretty friendly, but she can be very rude and she’s a know it all. She is mean to vendors that call for payment, she insults employees, questions everything they submit to be paid (even if their mgr approved it), she wont get around to paying your stuff if she doesn’t like you (even taxes), she’ll make you redo expense forms several times instead of just making a coding correction, she will tell everything about a subject, even if she’s wrong, she wants everything now, but if you walk up to her, she will ignore you until she’s ready to talk to you. I mean, she can be nice too, but she definitely has this obnoxious side of her personality. I’ve tried to ignore it, not get involved in that stuff. But when I did sit near her, I could not stand listening to her be so rude to people, I am just not like that and I feel it’s completely unnecessary, esp at work. She has made enemies of most people outside our department. Unfortuntely her supervisor doesn’t really deal with it and because the big boss loves her supervisor, she’d never do anything to this girl. But because I just ignore her when she starts talking out of her butt, we’ve never had any problems. Well I’ve been super busy the past two weeks as I was doing my job plus filling in for a girl on vacation, who herself has a busy workload. Well I was working on something and I went into my boss to ask her about something and then this girl (we’ll call her Tina), comes in and says she need original bank statements for filing. So I was like, okay, I’ll get them for you (they are on my desk, another guys desk and in the mailroom). Well she continued to stand there staring at me, moving her knee up and down and I look at her like, what?? And she says very loudly, “IM WAITING!” I was soooo taken aback. I mean, who does that? I was discussing something with my boss. I was gonna get them when I was done. So I reply back, I WILL get them. And she walks away. Well I’m sorry but that kind of attitude gets you no where (not to mention, she is not above me in any way shape or form, not that I care about that, but in this circumstance, I am not asking how high? when she says jump). So I went back to what I was doing. My boss got up to go across the room and I hear Tina telling her that she really needs the bank statements now and my boss (who is her supervisors boss as well) that I am busy and that she should move on in her filing and come back to it. So my boss comes asks me if she can get them for Tina, I said, no, I’ll take care of it. So finish what I was doing, went to the bathroom, checked my mail and the front desk girl asked me a question, so I spoke with her for a few and then went back to my desk. Then I got the bank statements together and gave them to Tina. It was less than an hour since she asked, I would have waited longer, but I was leaving for the day and I figured I’d just get it over with. So the next day I come to work and was extremely busy in the AM and we have a 10 am deadline for this banking thing we have to do and it was like 950 and I was rushing to our controllers office to go over it with her before the deadline and Tina comes up to me (in the hallway) asking for the keycard out of the safe (I have the key to the safe where the keycard to print checks is). I said, can you give me 5 minutes? And I rush off. I finish with our controller, come back to my desk, do the thing in the bank and take it back to the controller and get back to my desk and go get the key to the safe and open it up and there is nothing in there. I asked my boss (who also has a key) if she gave Tina the key. She said yes, she couldn’t wait. Now I’m a little pissed. I was gone for maybe 8 minutes; sorry it was over the 5, but come on! She could have at least told me she already got the keycard. So awhile later she comes back to return the keycard and I go to put it back and there is a sign in/sign out sheet, she signs it back in and reminds me I need to sign it in (I am only doing this because the one girl is out, I don’t usually deal with the safe, so at first I forgot that I had to sign it back in). So I take what I had in my hand, a pencil, and go to sign it back in and she says in a very rude tone, “you have to sign it in pen, HONEY”. I was just like, “do not call me honey”. She’s only 25, who does she think she is??? So then she watches me very closely to make sure I close the safe correctly (give me a break). So again I am a little annoyed. But I go back to work. Later that day, I was talking to my boss and she brought up the subject of Tina and I having a problem, so we talked about it a little bit. Apparently at some point Tina had gone to my boss and told her that the reason I wasn’t helping her was because I was going around and socially talking with people! And that I’m doing it on purpose. I was just like excuse me??????? My boss knows this isn’t true. But now I am so mad that she’s trying to get me in trouble with my boss. The first day I didn’t do it immediately because I don’t respond to “IM WAITING” and the next day, I was honestly running around like a chicken with my head cut off. But she thought I was doing it on purpose. So the third day, she sent her boss to get the keycard from me (give me a break). Now she’s completely ignoring me, acting like I did something to her. I honestly don’t understand what happened. I didn’t do anything. I thought we were friends, so I am pretty surprised at this total 180. When the girl I was filling in for returned, we were talking about it a little bit and she has the same problem with Tina, she demands everything NOW. This other girls boss told her not to give in to her because she’s not the boss and has to learn that not everyone is going to drop everything just to give her what she wants. But I’m really not sure what to do now. It’s just going to get worse, I just know it. I’m too nervous to talk to her, I’m afraid I’d lash out. It can’t stay this awkward because we’re in the same dept, we do work together and pretty soon they are rearranging the office and we’ll be sitting by each other again. Does anyone have any suggestions or advice? (sorry this was so long)
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